David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I list the online communities for VCs in general at Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital. Micah Mador, Partnerships Manager, Bolster , said in a presentation at the VC Platform Summit , “ Investors get hit up ALL THE TIME and everyone wants ‘access to their portfolio’. You can also sponsor their events.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial). Private Equity. Preqin (free demo).

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2021

What does it mean for venture capital and Startupland? Let’s examine the relationship between total venture capital investment and the 10 year Treasury in some detail. It’s a rectangular hyperbola and it suggests a relationship of y = A/x^n, which is exactly the net present value formula’s form.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Sam Altman of YC recently pointed out that pulling back during the downturn in 2008 would result in several big misses: In October of 2008, Sequoia Capital—arguably the best-ever in the business—gave the famous “RIP Good Times” presentation (I was there). These sound fundamentals drive the venture capital market over the long term.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

However, the more of these you see present in a young private company, the more concern you should have. Unique Financial Data Presentations. That said, if you start to see three or four, maybe five of these items present, you have a much higher likelihood of a problem. The problem is auditors are the “referees” in business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2014

Jess has been very kind to me over the years and also stopped my PowerPoint presentations from sucking. He saw a few terrible ones and like a fashion advisor telling you that your shoes and belt are supposed to match colors he pointed out the things in visual design for presentations that I never knew. On my blog and in presentation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That means we’re gearing up for a wave of venture capital data that will start to drop in less than two weeks’ time. Because Q1 2022 was replete with deals that got started back in 2021, when venture economics were spitting out very different valuations and deal sizes than we see today. billion invested in 2,424 deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

The 20-minute video of my presentation is here if you’re interested. You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. One area I didn’t talk about in the presentation that really interests me and seems underserved is helping to empower senior citizens. Collaboration.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Over the past two years, I’ve designed dozens of presentations for a variety of companies at various stages of fundraising — from startup SAFE rounds, to VC rounds and IPOs. Don’t build one presentation, build three. This is your main presentation, and it should be able to stand on its own without a speaker. Intro presentation.

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Revolution

MAY 23, 2023

The remaining 2.8K+ active investors in proptech are mostly asset managers, family offices, corporate venture capital firms, and real estate executives (let’s call this group “strategic” investors). It can present a risk for future scalability and fundraising. VC firms are not blameless — over 1.8K

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

4- Any startup can raise venture capital I've also seen a misconception on business types, versus their ability to raise venture capital. Jose “Caya” Cayasso is the co-founder and CEO of Slidebean , an automated, AI-powered, cloud-based presentation tool. If you can raise money, do it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

companies with all female founders are raising less capital this year than the last amid current economic woes. of all venture capital allocated, a figure that stands at 1.9% Year-to-date capital invested in all-female-founded companies in the United States is slightly higher than what was disbursed in all of 2020.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 29, 2020

Finding a female mentor with the same background was difficult, as was procuring venture capital funds in a male-dominated field. Without being able to find guidance from other women who had walked the road before her, Tamara took advantage of the resources that were presented to her, like the YLAI Network.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

The first time I met Andy Dunn he was working for the venture capital firm Maveron. Raising Venture Capital Tech Market Analysis' Debate helps everybody learn as I wrote about here. Let’s never stop debating important topics. *. The moral compass in all of us. by Dorrian Porter. We’ve come a long way.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. You need to be very present in these periods of time. The biggest difference from experience is that in bad markets people without venture capital experience or strategies are the first to the exit.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In the venture capital business, this has meant making investments in teams we don’t meet face to face. We know that in-person interaction is more meaningful, we are more present, and we connect in more fundamental ways. But just because you can does not mean you should.

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The Seraf Compass

AUGUST 14, 2019

As someone who worked with venture capital in the run-up to the first dot.com boom and is presently an active angel and co-head of one of the largest and busiest U.S. This form of early-stage investing seems to be having its 15 minutes of fame. Is it a passing fad? I don’t think so.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

And if you want my presentation on the things I Effed Up at my first startup you can view or download the short PPT by clicking that link on Docstoc. 49:30 Steve: When’s the last time venture capital actually led an innovation? Maybe the first step is talking openly about it.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

Dreamit Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman recently sat down with Jeff for a wide-ranging conversation on real estate tech, and a large part of that conversation focused on what founders can do to successfully raise venture capital from real estate tech investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2016

I wasn't present at the event, but I heard about it and found this tweet that separately referenced the comment: To the brave black woman who asked what to do when ppl tell her to get a white man as the face of her org,Im so sorry for @Bethenny 's answer — Marah Lidey (@marahml) April 9, 2016. Now, I've seen the stats and the studies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Maximilian Fleitmann , an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member primarily based in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany, is the CEO of BaseTemplates and Partner at Richmond View Ventures. He has raised venture capital for his startups, helped hundreds of founders craft their pitch decks and fundraising strategy, and invested as a business angel.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

So I am reposting it below: The venture capital business is highly competitive. That way you put yourself in the position to win and you can work the specifics to close the deal when the opportunity presents itself. I often read things I wrote a decade or more ago and cringe at how out of date they have become. Not this one.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Make your pitch tailored to what excites venture capital investors and avoid what does not. So make your pitch tailored to what excites venture capital investors and avoid what does not. Put your presentation to the “grandma” test. and “How will people save time, money and lives with your product?”.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

The venture asset class seems to have already decided that AI is the next great investment opportunity, but I’m not so sure it’s going to disrupt business and create the across-the-board wealth that has been predicted. What was notable was how similar they all sounded—that is, until I got the pitch from Brad and Fred at Union Square Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

” I wrote about this movement in the link to the left and also published this widely read presentation on the topic. He wanted to work in venture capital and I was new to the industry and in no position to hire anybody. DogVacay is part of a new global movement some people are calling “ Collaborative Consumption.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2016

And if you do happen to be lucky and find the right mountain to climb, if you find that you’ve started ascending the peak before others have found the right trail — then venture capital is for you. But you need to understand venture economics. And unless they have enormous outcomes it’s nearly impossible to hit this goal.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2014

And even when I remain skeptical sometimes opportunities present themselves that prove one should never be absolutist. The fact that Seedling had never raised venture capital made the deal 10x easier and the fact that they were going to be raising money on their own meant that the VCs had an important role to play.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

This is Venture Capital. In our funds we do about 12 deals / year and see several thousand so the funding rate is somewhere between 0.2–0.5% of deals we evaluate depending on how you count what constitutes “evaluating a deal.” Now let’s assume you take 10 meetings.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This is the task I set out to answer with the master of analysis at Upfront Ventures Glenn Poppe who deserves the bulk of the credit for our work. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

If things continue as they are, the venture capital ecosystem will mimic the stock market, which marks companies to market every minute. At the same time, venture capital fundraising sets records each year. Research them ahead of their process and present them with a term sheet next week. Just kidding.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 18, 2025

a pioneering company in quantum computing hardware, has secured a significant investment from Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc. Qolab, Inc.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

And it presents this information in a way that is easy to digest and discuss, without getting too bogged down in the nitty-gritty of the numbers. When you’re raising funds for your company, chances are that you’re trying to convince a venture capital firm to give you money. Why you need to tell your story in numbers.

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500

APRIL 6, 2020

Using YouTube Live and recorded presentations, as well as an investor-founder Slack channel, we found success in this new format. With the rise in regulations and restrictions surrounding COVID-19, we’ve entered unprecedented times on a global scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

It was a journalist who covered Venture Capital. It’s about presentations in front of large audiences. He is clearly intellectually very smart yet simplifying to “software is eating the world” helped him better deliver his message. He did the interview and was eviscerated in the article.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

of venture capital deals. Those companies have garnered only about 2% of all capital invested. Attack problems of the future rather than the present (or some variant). Almost every VC says that they invest in the “best” founders. This is despite the fact that the data show you’re better off investing in women.

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